I was wondering how to safely convert a Hybrid GPT/MBR to a pure GPT partition scheme? (Without Reformatting)
The reason why I ask is, I currently triple-boot with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Windows 10 and Mac OSX Lion.
Originally I needed to format my drive with a Hybrid partition scheme to install Windows 7 but I have since upgraded to Windows 10.
I know now that Windows 10 supports booting from GPT partitions and I would like to covert everything to a pure GPT partition scheme without reformatting.
If I can do this, I would be able to reformat my HFS+ partition to an APFS partition and install High Sierra.
So the questions are:
- How do I convert my Hybrid MBR to a pure GPT?
- Will it break booting into any of my OSes if I do? (Windows 10, Linux, MacOSX)
Here is my gdisk output:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): CBC86EEB-C878-4C46-9963-120433EB0BED
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 269477 sectors (131.6 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF02 EFI System Partition
2 409640 293378391 139.7 GiB AF00 Mac OSX
3 293642240 684265471 186.3 GiB 0700 WINDOWS 7
4 684265472 1075085311 186.4 GiB 0700 LINUX
5 1075085865 1087375589 5.9 GiB 8200
6 1087375590 3907024064 1.3 TiB 0700
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